Recently in Lesbian/Catholic School? Category
So in all my wisdom I decided to call out sick the night before the day I was calling in sick. Actually I emailed, thinking that when our headmistress (yes I work at a catholic school) got into school at her usual time, she'd have advanced notice that the IT person would not be in that day. So I'm not one to give a lot of info when I take a day. Basically we're given 10 sick/personal days and nowhere in the manual does it say we need to give personal details of every day we take. Not everyone apparently feels this way as some days we will get detailed explanations of why people are out sick emailed to the entire school. Things like: "I was on the toilet all night last night and my doctor thinks perhaps I have a case of the flu. That, in combination with my progressing arthritis as well as my horrible case of acid reflux just made me feel like I should stay home". WTF people. Do you not have any sense of privacy or, better yet, any sense of awareness? Hint: WE DON'T CARE!!!
Anyway, I decided to keep it simple so I wrote, "I'm taking a sick day tomorrow. I hope to be back on Wednesday. If you have an emergency, please call my cell phone." So the next day I get up early and head to the Daily Grind to meet Niki (yes our infamous Niki) and I open my email and Sister has written back, "are you sick?". Ummm, what do you at this point? So I kind of temporarily froze and then did what I'm almost certain 99.9% of the population would have done -- I lied. TO A NUN! What choice really? Why ask? Again, hello!!!!-- a personal/sick day is PERSONAL! Did she really think anyone, even the most Catholic of the Catholic, would reply, "No sister I am not sick. I am perfectly fine and wanted to meet Niki for coffee to discuss my lesbian clothing business so I decided to take the day off." I felt like confessing but wait, I have no religion to dictate such a confession! Thank goodness. I think that would have been a lot of Hail Mary's.
What would you have done? Comments are welcome!
Anyway, I decided to keep it simple so I wrote, "I'm taking a sick day tomorrow. I hope to be back on Wednesday. If you have an emergency, please call my cell phone." So the next day I get up early and head to the Daily Grind to meet Niki (yes our infamous Niki) and I open my email and Sister has written back, "are you sick?". Ummm, what do you at this point? So I kind of temporarily froze and then did what I'm almost certain 99.9% of the population would have done -- I lied. TO A NUN! What choice really? Why ask? Again, hello!!!!-- a personal/sick day is PERSONAL! Did she really think anyone, even the most Catholic of the Catholic, would reply, "No sister I am not sick. I am perfectly fine and wanted to meet Niki for coffee to discuss my lesbian clothing business so I decided to take the day off." I felt like confessing but wait, I have no religion to dictate such a confession! Thank goodness. I think that would have been a lot of Hail Mary's.
What would you have done? Comments are welcome!
